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Been enjoying Rhythmbox, what are your thoughts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by merci3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It's so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme 😆

How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y'all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!

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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I just went on a journey looking at different local music players.

Just tried Rhythmbox. It's not terrible, but not great either. It looks very bare bones.

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Of the ones I've tried, I like Elisa the best. I spent a ton of time getting HQ artwork and quality metadata on my files and Elisa really shows that off. Rhythmbox barely shows any artwork. I just have two complaints about Elisa. First, Qt apps just don't feel right in Gnome for various reasons: fonts are often too thick, icon contrast is bad, and Qt theme is weird for non-Breze. It also has weird scrolling behavior: it has forced scrolling smoothing and acceleration.

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Runner up is Sayonara. It's Qt based, but actually feels decent in Gnome. Overall I like the UI more than Elisa, but unfortunately it doesn't handle showing my library as well. Artwork is duplicated (it shows albums multiple times if songs in them have different years) and some artwork is inexplicably missing.

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[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use mpd and ncmpc++, myself. My library got too large (Just shy of 70,000 songs now) and all the GUI players choke and freeze when I try to scan my library, including Rhythmbox and QuodLibet. I'm kind of interested in how inori develops, since ncmpc++ isn't getting any active development beyond fixing bugs when things break with updates, but I'm also pretty happy with it for now.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just read that navidrome

Handles large libraries!

Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)

Though, I don't know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much...

[–] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I dont have a library that big, but I would recommend trying the Feishin desktop player if using navidrome. It's a solid player in my experience, and has a smart playlist creator UI which the navidrome webui does not include.